Summary
Paul Hamby is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available, scalable infrastructures from Austin, Texas. He has progressed from systems and network administration roles supporting ISPs and enterprise environments to senior SRE and staff engineering positions at Vrbo and now Q2, bringing deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code and automation. Paul specializes in designing and running complex distributed systems at scale, with a practical background in Debian Linux, Cisco networking, load balancers and cloud-native tooling. He blends a strong operational mindset with software engineering practices to reduce toil and improve reliability across large fleets. Colleagues know him for turning messy, legacy environments into auditable, automated platforms and for sustaining services used by tens of thousands of end users. His career shows a steady arc from hands-on systems work to strategic SRE leadership, reflecting both technical depth and long-term operational ownership.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Tarleton State University